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[Princess Sci-Twi
Seems a little odd that the Equestria Girls version of Twilight Sparkle would have wings while Sunset Shimmer doesn’t, huh? I never really thought of it that much, but a lot of people seem bothered by this. So, I did some thinking.
Well, in the first Equestria Girls movie, it’s implied that the human counterparts channel the power of their pony counterparts whenever they ‘pony up’. That’s why Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash get wings while the other girls don’t, and horns would just look weird on a EG. EG Twilight channels Princess Twilight’s power. Princess Twilight has wings, ergo, EG Twilight gets wings. Frankly, I think it would be more confusing if she didn’t get wings.
While you can make a case for Sunset Shimmer deserving those wings, they wouldn’t carry the same symbolic weight as they do in Equestria. In the EG world, there is no triad of unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies, and there are no alicorns. There are only those with magic and those without. Human Twilight having wings doesn’t mean anything beyond her being linked to her pony counterpart.

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thps48
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
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Young Leosword
If this weren’t five years old, I could’ve referenced Loki, Spider-Man, and/or Kang the Conqueror. X3
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World's biggest idiot xD
Because wings on humanoid Sci-Twi make her look like a really cool, cute, heavenly angel.
 
Wings on a pony do not hold quite the same connotations of angelicness, especially when combined with the horn she naturally had to have.
 
Also, she’s the human equivalent of Princess Twilight, who started life as a unicorn, and gained Alicorn status through her own work. Sci-Twi of course coming from the human world has never had the chance to earn herself Alicorn powers, and therefore is still unicorn-equivalent.
 
QED?
Background Pony #71AA
Seeing Sci-Twi as a unicorn instead of an alicorn soothes the annoyance I got when she got wings in LoE. The wings don’t mean anything apparently.
Background Pony #350A
@PonyPon  
How is it channeling as opposed to them simply possessing the same attributes? Where is channeling mentioned.
Background Pony #350A
“Well, in the first Equestria Girls movie, it’s implied that the human counterparts channel the power of their pony counterparts whenever they ‘pony up’.”
 
How and where was that implied?
Background Pony #AB73
@MadVillain  
Did you watch the first movie?  
Elements of harmony and all.  
And Sunset and Sci-Twi proceeding to obtain that power through other means.  
Sunset: wearing the element of magic  
Sci-Twi: absorbing the pony up magic (originated from the elements) from humane 5  
But it also became part of them in the process.
 
random Equestria Earth magic slipping through the portal
 
That didn’t happen until the end of Friendship Games where the statue was destroyed and start leaking magic as shown in Legend of Everfree.
MadVillain
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Is that how it worked? I thought the Pony up thing was from just random Equestria Earth magic slipping through the portal, not specifically the Mane 6’s.